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Author: Uraula K. Le Guin

Title: Gifts

Main Character: Orrec, Gry

Setting: The story take place in a place called "The Western Shore", time is not clear.

Summary:

"It's a queer business, making oneself blind."
The main character who called Orrec is from Uplands. The land is poor, but the families who live there have superpower -- to summon animals, a limb, or chain a mind. And, we called it gifts.
Orrec family's gift is to undo, unmake, destroy, by using their eyes. However, Orrec's gift is a wild, uncontrollable one. That means he could not control it carefully and might easily kill things he don't want to, or even kill the person he love.
So, he blind himself.